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Re: A little bench racing.
« Reply #45 on: March 17, 2008, 09:36:26 PM »
 ;D That is to cool. keep tuning, you'll get it.
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Re: A little bench racing.
« Reply #46 on: March 17, 2008, 09:41:59 PM »
Once you get it lauching better, you can play with your air pressure for better 60fts too.

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Re: A little bench racing.
« Reply #47 on: March 17, 2008, 09:55:22 PM »
I plan on taking it to a real track soon, but I noticed that theres a problem.  The truck is leaning to the passenger side really hard.  The bumps at that track were violent and at one point I thought I was gonna either lose control or bust my oilpan on the bumps.  I hope I didn't bend the frame or something.

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Re: A little bench racing.
« Reply #48 on: March 17, 2008, 11:10:47 PM »
Doubt that, it is normal for these to lean some. 

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Re: A little bench racing.
« Reply #49 on: March 18, 2008, 03:39:09 AM »
I'll take some pictures on flat ground and see how bad it's really leaning.  My wife and a few others noticed it too.  I know the bed was about 1/2" higher on the driver side before, but the whole truck seems to be leaning now.

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Re: A little bench racing.
« Reply #50 on: March 18, 2008, 10:09:04 AM »
 The right side normaly wants to dig in and pick up the left side. I have installed in my coil spring Elcamino a air bag to help this reaction. You might try to slip an extra spring in the right side.

Gotta watch running your tire pressure low, the tire will want to slip on the rim, make a mark on both tires and the rim to keep an eye on this. Screws in the bead keep this from happening.

If you run an MSD Box you can buy a 2 or 3 step box to add to it and use a rpm chip on launch to keep from spinning coming out of the box.
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Re: A little bench racing.
« Reply #51 on: March 18, 2008, 12:11:31 PM »
I'm gonna look into that 2 step idea...I'm not sure I understand how it works though.
  I'm gonna take measurements this week and see what exactly changed on my truck to cause it to lean so much.

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Re: A little bench racing.
« Reply #52 on: March 18, 2008, 12:22:11 PM »
 You can go to summitracing.com to find the step boxes and on there they have MSD directions and such.

EDIT: under search at the top of the summit page type in MSD-8737 then click on that part, then click on instructions and read
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Re: A little bench racing.
« Reply #53 on: March 18, 2008, 01:34:48 PM »
I'm not sure, but I think I already have a 2 step, I just didn't know what it was used for or how to hook it up.  I'm still in the learning stage with my truck.LOL.

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Re: A little bench racing.
« Reply #54 on: March 20, 2008, 12:54:23 PM »
 I see from your pics that your have the 6010 MSD box, You can do a lot of stuff tunning wise with that box and the ProData+ software.
 Keep us updated.
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Re: A little bench racing.
« Reply #55 on: March 20, 2008, 01:55:24 PM »
I see from your pics that your have the 6010 MSD box, You can do a lot of stuff tunning wise with that box and the ProData+ software.
 Keep us updated.
I'll definately keep you guys updated.  I'm planning a trip to the dyno real soon, we just need to find a truck with enough power to pull me there.  Our Ford truck struggled last week on that little 40mile trip to the crappy track. And our little sonoma is only a 2.2L so that's no help.  I may have to build a tow vehicle real quick.  But anyways, I plan to do some tuning on the dyno and hopefully get a 100shot thrown in there.